I have a pair of bluetooth earbuds (TOZO T20), which I normally use with my phone.
I tried connecting them to the PC (which is running Manjaro Linux). First I disabled bluetooth on my phone to force them to disconnect from it. On the PC, I clicked on the Bluetooth tray icon, then I clicked something like “add new device”, and a list of devices appeared including my earbuds. I clicked on them and selected “Connect”, they connected succesfully, I eared the sound in the earbuds that indicates they have just connected to something, and they show up as connected.
However, when I play sound on the PC (e.g. from a youtube video), it still goes through the analog headphones output or the speakers, and the earbuds are dead silent.
I see no setting anywhere to tell the system to route the audio to the bluetooth earbuds (which should be the default anyway).
Am I missing something or (seems more likely) something is not working?
Teo
16 November 2024 22:51
2
The 3.5 mm hardware jack normally always takes precedence automatically.
It would be helpful to tell on what desktop you are. Here is for example on XFCE - you configure in the bluetooth device manager the device to connect automatically, or you have to click connect every time. You can also quickly change the audio source after that.
That would be a bit annoying because I use the 3.mm jack as a “line out” to connect external speakers, not headphones, so I’d prefer the bluetooth to have precedence over the 3.5mm jack. However, I have unplugged it and the result is the same: the audio goes to the builtin speakers rather than the bluetooth earbuds.
KDE.
I don’t mind connecting every time (actually I prefer so). I don’t intend to use them often. All I need is to hear the audio from the earbuds once they are connected.
That’s what I can’t seem to find anywhere
All these screenshots are with the earbuds connected.
BG405
17 November 2024 06:00
4
It should look a bit more like this:
Are you using Pulse (like I am on this machine) or Pipewire (like I am on the other)? Both should present playback and test options in the Audio section of System Settings.
inxi -zv8
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System:
Kernel: 6.6.54-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=9bf69149-20a0-483a-8265-7dbfb3a324c3 rw quiet splash
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Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.6.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: Vivobook_ASUSLaptop X1502ZA_F1502ZA
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Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X1502ZA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: X1502ZA.312
date: 03/01/2023
Battery:
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Audio:
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driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
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API: ALSA v: k6.6.54-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
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tools: cadence,jack_control
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Network:
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IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
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IF: enp0s20f0u3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:467f rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
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SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Swap:
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Unmounted:
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USB:
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Sensors:
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Repos:
Packages: 1690 pm: pacman pkgs: 1683 libs: 408 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 7
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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6: https://mirror.funami.tech/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://mirror.2degrees.nz/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
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13: https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
14: https://manjaro.kurdy.org/stable/$repo/$arch
15: https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
16: http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/manjaro/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
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23: https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
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25: https://mirrors.gigenet.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
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Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 392
1: cpu: 1.5% command: chrome pid: 245354 mem: 225.0 MiB (1.4%)
2: cpu: 1.0% command: chrome pid: 250810 mem: 452.9 MiB (2.8%)
3: cpu: 0.8% command: kwin_wayland pid: 732 mem: 270.0 MiB (1.7%)
4: cpu: 0.7% command: Xwayland pid: 831 mem: 564.9 MiB (3.6%)
5: cpu: 0.7% command: C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe pid: 249007
mem: 23.3 MiB (0.1%)
Memory top: 5 of 392
1: mem: 1134.8 MiB (7.2%)
command: C:\users\teo\AppData\Local\Programs\ADI\LTspice\LTspice.exe
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2: mem: 564.9 MiB (3.6%) command: Xwayland pid: 831 cpu: 0.7%
3: mem: 556.0 MiB (3.5%) command: Telegram pid: 49356 cpu: 0.0%
4: mem: 513.9 MiB (3.2%) command: chrome pid: 245246 cpu: 0.6%
5: mem: 452.9 MiB (2.8%) command: chrome pid: 250810 cpu: 1.0%
Info:
Processes: 392 Power: uptime: 14d 19m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: s2idle avail: deep wakeups: 52 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 6.12 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 13 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36
Both appear to be installed, so I don’t know.
BG405
17 November 2024 20:00
6
Seems you have both PulseAudio AND Pipewire active! This shouldn’t be the case. How did you activate PipeWire?
I suggest using:
sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-pipewire
You might
sudo pacman -Rns pulseaudio-ctl
… but try without first?
N.B. I have had an issue with a Mifa earbud set connecting to Bluetooth but not showing as an audio device in settings etc. — in my case, “forgetting” the device and re-pairing fixed it, for a while anyway.
Kobold
17 November 2024 21:44
7
It could be possible this:
The key is to trust the bluetooth device first, otherwise the Device connection will be refused.
Trust>Pair>connect
I am trying to listen to my music on my Manjaro (KDE Plasma, Stable) using my Airpods Pro.
I could pair them I believe after following the steps here Bluetooth Questions - Airpods - #5 by zzp1012
Now I see my Airpods Pro in bluetooth, I tried to press the connect button but I got a message saying "Connection to the device failed "
I disabled bluetooth, enabled, rebooted… etc. Still not connecting.
I did my homework and searched the forum and found Automatic Bluetooth Pairing - Headphones - …
Teo
18 November 2024 11:38
8
I think it is first pair, then trust, but yes, in my case i have paired and trusted, as seen in the shot above (blue key is pair, green tick is trust).
P.s. i see the OP has the headphones also trusted, so it is something else.
Kobold
18 November 2024 12:21
9
I know it should be this way… but under KDE its not.
Im just explained and how to adapt the unlogic from KDE here.
Nah not under KDE… at least not if he does it in the wrong chronology.
If he got his chronology the way as KDE wants already, yeah then i also think that it must be another problem here.
Cheers.
